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The authors of the study theorized that this inability to focus is caused by the infatuation that takes place in the early stages of a relationship,
infatuation that takes place in the early stages
The narcissist's infatuation with a grandiose self-image leads to self-absorption, reducing their capacity to empathize with the feelings and experiences of other people.
The narcissist's infatuation with a grandiose self-image leads to self-absorption, reducing
and I was like, "I can't live my life like this with this insane infatuation crush.
I can't live my life like this, with this insane infatuation crush. I need to know.
This could be limerence, a state of obsessive infatuation driven by reward seeking, not mutual love.
Psychologist Dorothy Tenov calls this state limerence, that intoxicating intrusive phase of infatuation when you can't stop thinking about someone who barely knows you.
Stage 3 Infatuation now that you know for sure you have a crush on this person, next comes infatuation.
The first part is that crazy infatuation when we lose our minds over this new person.
It absolutely is possible, even sometimes when you don't necessarily have that initial stage of infatuation, to over time grow into loving them and turning that into a long-term attachment.
So that infatuation phase, a lot of rumination, but limerence in particular is often unidirectional.
Their focus is exclusively on what we would call the infatuation or, more colloquially, the crush side of love.
exclusively on what we would call the infatuation or more colloquially the
That's infatuation.
That's not love, right? That's infatuation.